Media: the 15 million Asian Cup bid fee paid by the cities in each competition district will be refunded to 8 million.

According to media person Qin Yun, the original cities hosting the 2023 China Asian Cup have been informed that of the 15 million bid fees originally handed in by each competition district, the remaining 8 million will be returned to the cities.
On January 7, 2021, the Asian Football Federation and the Chinese Organizing Committee of the Asian Cup announced that the 2023 Asian Cup of China will be held in 10 cities of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi’an, Dalian, Qingdao, Xiamen and Suzhou from June 16 to July 16, 2023. Of the ten districts of the 2023 China Asian Cup, most cities have handed in 15 million yuan in “bid fees”.
On May 14 this year, the Asian Football Association announced that after consultation and study between the Asian Football Association and the Chinese Football Association, the Chinese Football Association formally informed the Asian Football Association that it would not be able to hold the 2023 Asian Cup finals. Then the Chinese Organizing Committee for the 2023 Asian Cup began to deal with the aftermath.
The 2023 Asian Cup will no longer be held in China, and the “bid fee” of each district should of course be returned. The “bid fees” are borrowed from the financial expenses of the cities in each competition area, and the finance bureaus of some cities have begun to inquire and urge the return of the “bid fees” since mid-late May.
Before the opening of the World Cup in Qatar last month, the original cities of the Asian Cup of China in 2023 were informed by the staff of the original organizing committee that the bid fee would be returned to the cities, but the rest after the use of the organizing committee had been determined to return 8 million to the cities. In that year, the handover of the cities in each competition district was 15 million, and there was more than half left.
Some district cities have proposed that the organizing committee should issue legal financial information to assist the competition district “bid fee” to complete the process of returning to the financial account. At present, the organizing committee has not given relevant information, that is to say, how nearly half of the “bid fee” was spent, it is not “clear”, and it is difficult for each city to explain to the financial department.